"A woman pretending to be pregnant will at the most, have a pretend miscarriage and delay the guy dumping her for a few months."

I've known two guys who have had similar stuff happen (one gf stopped taking the pill, the other poked holes in condoms; both admitted it after marriage), so this is stuff that falls into the "it happens, but I try to avoid lunatics as much as possible anyways" category. No judgement on a population group covers all…

Yuuuuuup. It's a pity, because they're all actually quite nice.

This would make me happier if I wasn't likely to be PS4/XBox-One-Only as of this fall.

The last time I was actually buying men's dress shoes was 5-10 years ago in the States, and they were horrible. The bane of my existence. No flex at all to the sole, and the leather hard enough to be like a hoof on your foot. They're the reason that I started wearing Timberland "dress style" shoes; they have a…

I certainly agree, though I can't specifically comment. The closest I have on that is some middle eastern family living next door who suddenly sent their daughter abroad and came back with a baby. That situation is apparently because the father is the father.

I have a pro/con situation when it comes to the current style for men's dress shoes. On the con side, I do not personally understand the "pointy elf style" that is pretty much the standard here right now (London). To me it's more than a little silly, but to each their own. On the upside, I love how modern dress…

Well, as someone who's main reason for emigrating from the US was a marriage, I can understand why after a divorce a person might feel the need to return to their native country. It would be more of of an issue the greater the cultural/linguistic differences are. If that person is also the primary custodian of the…

My brother-in-law has a kid with an EU citizen (he's British) and it's been a near-constant struggle to keep enough oversight as to her ability to just leave the country with the boy and never be heard from again.

Not trying to pick you apart, but for the value of that inclusion in your post you might as well have said "as a Mormon" or "as a Texan" or really anything else. It's a really odd thing to feel a need to include, to the point where it sticks out in a reader's head more than the rest of the message.

Irony is that "we" (specifically, my wife and me by proxy) just saw that episode...

You seem to be making a big assumption: I don't go around trolling, and I certainly don't go around reading every worthless thing that someone has posted previously.

The problem is that as soon as you make a post that doesn't specifically mention mutilating or killing the guy/rapist/defendant (not to mention refraining from calling an individual "the rapist" at every possible instance)... you're somehow a trolling rape-apologist.

This is something that took me a good long while to figure out when I moved to the UK.

Well, to be perfectly frank, since this case happened in the US then US law is what matters. In the UK (the most similar country, broadly speaking) the sentencing would have been in the 6-11 year range before any time suspended. In other countries there would have been much less of a penalty (not the least of all…

Holy crap, yes, I'm aware of this. Well aware of this. My point is that the reason why statutory rape or a minor by an adult (no previous conviction) is listed as a 0-15 year sentence is because there is a gradient in how serious the offense is. I'm not saying that he isn't guilty, I'm not saying that he isn't (and…

Holy shit, do I ever love how people in this discussions lose all ability to read and understand the language of other human beings.

I'm.... pretty sure that wouldn't be able to happen(?).

"so why ruin his life"

Basically, what you said. Logistically speaking, "unsupervised visits with children" in "unsupervised visits with family members who happen to be children" are different things. While there may have been no discretion in the regulations for the treatment program, it wouldn't eliminate the possibility for discretion…